1952
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485300030650
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The Insects associated with Export Produce in Southern Nigeria

Abstract: The problem of insect infestation of stored export food commodities in southern Nigeria is discussed, and a list of insects is given. At the ports there is considerable cross-infestation between commodities produced in northern and southern Nigeria awaiting shipment.Old sacks used for the storage and transit of groundnuts are responsible for the spread of insects to palm kernel and cocoa marketing centres in the south. After bulk shipments of a portion of the groundnut crop, sacks are repaired and distributed … Show more

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“…G. minutus is the most widespread species in tropical Africa. It is not, however, found in the dry areas of northern Nigeria (Howe, 1952), although it is found in the more humid south (Cotterell, 1952). The products from which G. minutus and G. ferrugineus were collected in Africa are listed in Table I.…”
Section: Africa South Of the Saharamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…G. minutus is the most widespread species in tropical Africa. It is not, however, found in the dry areas of northern Nigeria (Howe, 1952), although it is found in the more humid south (Cotterell, 1952). The products from which G. minutus and G. ferrugineus were collected in Africa are listed in Table I.…”
Section: Africa South Of the Saharamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The present work was undertaken because L. serricorne has become the principal pest of stored cocoa in West Africa (Cotterell, 1952;Hayward, 1954). Almost all the previous biological information on this species has been derived from work using tobacco, which is a comparatively poor food.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The high level of infestation found by the Ministry's inspectors in produce in British African Colonies during and after the war caused the Colonial Office, in 1948, to sponsor surveys of infestation in grain in East Africa (Oxley, 1950) and in groundnuts and cocoa beans from West Africa, particularly Nigeria (Cotterell & Howe, 1952;Cotterell, 1953).…”
Section: Stored-products Entomology Inmentioning
confidence: 99%